Vayra i think one of the things you could explain next would be when a modder actually need an IDE to compile stuff into a jar and how to do so, this seem to be the main question people get after making a simple ship/weapon

Thanks for the tutorial, it was clear and easy to follow.Tried it out but when launching the game, it crashes and tells me Fatal: JSONObject["id"] not found.I searched around but coulndn't find anything usefull. Do you have any clue about what I did wrong?

Hi, I started playing starsector after watching Seth's video and I want to make some personal adjustments for my game. My favorite ships are carriers, and I feel like it would be much cooler if there were more LPC slots. Is there any way to edit Vanilla carriers to add more LPC slots?

Would a new ship data file of a modified vanilla ship automatically override the core vanilla ship file in-game?

If you want to modify just your game you can modify the ship_data file in the base game, but if you want to make a mod i recommend not changing vanilla ships and making your own for compatibility reasons.Also use this thread for this kind of question.http://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=5061.5400

Hello there, I'm also new to modding around here. The tutorial is really well made, however I'm having an issue. As of now I'm focusing on adding some ships but I'm stuck with my first one. I've followed each step to make my ship functionnal but when loading the game, I get this error :

Usually logs can help me but this time it's a bit hard for me to get something useful out of this error. I've double checked every file I've made but I don't see anything suspicious. I just made an extra step which consists of adding a built-in weapon to my ship.

Sorry for my bad English, I'm trying my best to make it understandable because I'm French.

Hey, I checked your ship data files. Check inside your file, "galaxytigers_midtech2x_cv.ship". I noticed this out of place line in there:

"coversColor": "\r",

the \r can sometimes be added by the Ship and Weapon editor, iirc. Try removing it and see if it works then.

"coversColor": "",

Thanks a lot for your answer! When you mentionned the "galaxytigers_midtech2x_cv.ship" file I immediatly saw that it was a mistake I've made because the other ship file ("galaxytigers_heron.ship") is the file I want to keep. I deleted the wrong one (I've checked the line before doing so and I saw the famous \r) and tried to load my mod, and now it works!

Thank you again! If I get this error again when adding other ships then I'll know where it comes from!

I've got another question even though it is not topic related. Do you know where I could get the weapon mounts pictures? I guess you know what I mean, those "holes" we see when no weapons are equiped. I wasn't able to find them anywhere in the core files nor on the Internet. Must I "extract" them from ship pictures?

Hey, I checked your ship data files. Check inside your file, "galaxytigers_midtech2x_cv.ship". I noticed this out of place line in there:

"coversColor": "\r",

the \r can sometimes be added by the Ship and Weapon editor, iirc. Try removing it and see if it works then.

"coversColor": "",

I've got another question even though it is not topic related. Do you know where I could get the weapon mounts pictures? I guess you know what I mean, those "holes" we see when no weapons are equiped. I wasn't able to find them anywhere in the core files nor on the Internet. Must I "extract" them from ship pictures?